Post by Paul Evans on Jan 10, 2014 18:16:10 GMT
To all our members who attended Stargazing Live,
Last night was probably the most spectacular event we have been the biggest part of with over 4100 people present, clear skies, excellent craic and a fabulous evening had by nearly everyone. I gather there were indeed some problems with the logistics of dealing with that many people and it's something that we'll need to learn from and address with the various partners involved in future events.
All of rose to the challenge and delivered a fabulous evening for the guests and we are getting excellent feedback through social media and other channels.
For my own part, I thoroughly enjoyed doing the Star Walks. I expected to guide a dozen or two people through the heavens and it turned out that I had upwards of 100 people gathered round me and my laser, so in the later shows my BBC colleagues supplied me with a microphone and portable boom box which worked very well indeed. The queues at all of our exhibits were a measure of the level of public interest in our hobby and our National Broadcaster has done us proud in promoting it.
So many thanks to all involved, you gave your time and dealt patiently with long queues at the scopes and delivered great satisfaction to the public - the smiles and gasps were proof of that.
Thanks again, and Clear Skies all,
Paul.
Last night was probably the most spectacular event we have been the biggest part of with over 4100 people present, clear skies, excellent craic and a fabulous evening had by nearly everyone. I gather there were indeed some problems with the logistics of dealing with that many people and it's something that we'll need to learn from and address with the various partners involved in future events.
All of rose to the challenge and delivered a fabulous evening for the guests and we are getting excellent feedback through social media and other channels.
For my own part, I thoroughly enjoyed doing the Star Walks. I expected to guide a dozen or two people through the heavens and it turned out that I had upwards of 100 people gathered round me and my laser, so in the later shows my BBC colleagues supplied me with a microphone and portable boom box which worked very well indeed. The queues at all of our exhibits were a measure of the level of public interest in our hobby and our National Broadcaster has done us proud in promoting it.
So many thanks to all involved, you gave your time and dealt patiently with long queues at the scopes and delivered great satisfaction to the public - the smiles and gasps were proof of that.
Thanks again, and Clear Skies all,
Paul.
